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De - Pt| English Dictionary: ourselves | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Myself \My*self"\, pron.; pl. {Ourselves}. I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ourselves \Our*selves"\, pron. ; sing. {Ourself} ([?]). An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. --Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. --Dryden. Note: The form ourself is usec only in the regal or formal style after we or us, denoting a single person. Unless we would denude ourself of all force. --Clarendon. | |
